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2016 Election, Bad Idea, Censorship, Politics, Social Media
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Facebook Cracks Down on Users Putting “Deplorable” in Profile Names
by Shifra on September 21, 2016Because…“violation of Community Standards.” Or, as we call it, censorship. Via IBT. Facebook has begun cracking down on users who use “deplorable” in their profile names, forcing them to change them because it violates the social media company’s Terms of Service. Hundreds of supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump embraced the label after Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said: “You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” According to the social media network’s community standards, users are required to use their real names and information…. Facebook has come under fire for its highly controversial real name policy in the past as well. In December 2015, the company was forced to refine its policy...
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Colorado U. Bans Climate Change Debate on Online Forums
by Shifra on September 7, 2016Oh good: More material for the sequel to Tammy’s 2001 book ‘The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds’ Via Breitbart. In the midst of national debates concerning free speech on college campuses, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has opted to clamp down on students who challenge the reigning orthodoxy regarding manmade global warming. Last week, three professors co-teaching a course titled “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” emailed a statement to all students informing them that anthropogenic climate change is not up for debate in their course…. The professors, backed by University Communications Director Tom Hutton, said that the ban on debate even extends to discussion among students in the online...
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Twitter Reported to Have Censored Tweets Critical of Obama
by Shifra on August 12, 2016Well, this explains why I never got a response to my #AskPOTUS questions, “What’s wrong with you?” and “What meds are you on?” Via Washington Examiner. A former Twitter CEO took measures to ensure messages critical of President Obama wouldn’t circulate too widely on the platform during a 2015 question-and-answer session, according to a new report. The incident allegedly occurred during a May 2015 “#AskPOTUS” event on the platform, when former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo purportedly ordered the creation of an algorithm to suppress the messages and used employees to manually scrub any critical content missed by the software. Costolo kept the decision secret from company executives for fear that someone might object, several sources told Buzzfeed…. Related: NY Observer:...
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(Video) Russia Lifts Ban On 1943 “Nazi Donald Duck” Cartoon
by Shifra on July 31, 2016The cartoon won an Academy Award for best animated short cartoon in 1943. Via Times of Israel. A court in Russia has cleared the Walt Disney character Donald Duck from accusations of extremism 73 years after a Disney short featured him in a Nazi uniform. The eight-minute animated short, “Der Fuehrer’s Face” was made as a propaganda clip to boost morale in America…. The publishing of Nazi symbols is banned by law in Russia and so the clip’s negative view of the Nazi regime was missed by Russian authorities. In 2012, a local resident in Kamchatka, in the east of Siberia, uploaded the cartoon and was arrested and then given a suspended sentence for “inciting racial hatred” by a municipal...
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‘Gag’ Order: FBI Agents In Clinton Email Case Signed Non-Disclosure Agreement
by Shifra on July 14, 2016Why? Via Fox News. The FBI has confirmed to a senior Republican senator that agents were sworn to secrecy — and subject to lie detector tests — in the Hillary Clinton email probe, an extensive measure one former agent said could have a “chilling effect.” A July 1 letter sent by a senior deputy to FBI Director James Comey to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, detailed the restrictions on agents. The letter, reviewed by Fox News, confirmed agents signed a “Case Briefing Acknowledgement” which says the disclosure of information is “strictly prohibited” without prior approval, and those who sign are subject to lie detector tests. The measures show the extent to which the bureau has gone to keep...
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Facebook Deletes Political Page for Mocking Hillary
by Shifra on July 12, 2016But viciously anti-Israel accounts that promote terrorist attacks against Jews “follow Facebook Community Standards” and are allowed on FB? Got it. And apparently, it is also within FB’s “standards” to have a picture of a police officer’s throat being slit. Via Breitbart. Admins of the lighthearted political page “Liberty Memes” have been suspended from Facebook and had images mocking Hillary Clinton deleted from their page. The Facebook page, boasting over 100K likes, has had multiple images removed as they apparently don’t “follow the Facebook Community Standards”. One of the most recent images removed was one that poked fun at Hillary Clinton and the recent recommendation by the FBI not to press charges following Clinton’s email scandal. The image received approximately...
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DOJ, FBI Fail at Censoring Orlando Terror Motive; Reverse Strange & Idiotic Decision to Censor 911 Transcript
by Tammy on June 20, 2016Another day, another illustration of a federal government that’s clueless and winging it. Just hours after releasing a redacted transcript of the Orlando terrorist’s 911 call, the Fed decided to reverse itself and released the full, uncensored version. In 2012 they largely succeeded in lying to the American people about the real events in Benghazi. It eventually came out but the Obama/Hillary regime went into overdrive lying about that terrorist attack to save Obama’s re-election. So why wouldn’t they attempt the same thing again? At first they argued that censoring it was a matter of not allow his “propaganda” to be promoted, then they said it was to be sensitive to the victims and their families. Both of those excuses...
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Canadian Newspaper Censors Refugee Abuse Of School Children
by Shifra on April 12, 2016Europe seems well on its way to committing national “suicide” with the influx of asylum seekers, er, migrants. With all that’s happened, is Canada now willing to do the same? Via Daily Caller: A story revealing how a Canadian elementary school has allowed refugee students to physically abuse their classmates and go unpunished was removed Sunday morning, with little explanation other than a nod towards the “sensitive” nature of the subject. Nova Scotia newspaper The Chronicle Herald published a story on Friday evening titled “Parents worried over school kids’ brutality at Chebucto Heights Elementary School.” The story revealed parents’ fears over the abuse their children have suffered at the hands of newly-enrolled refugee students. By Sunday morning, however, The Herald...
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University Student Accused Of Violating ‘Safe Space’ For Raising Her Hand
by Shifra on April 7, 2016Sure to be a chapter if Tammy writes a sequel to The New Thought Police. Via Telegraph: A university student was threatened with being thrown out of a meeting after being accused of violating “safe space” rules – by raising her hand. Imogen Wilson, the vice-president for academic affairs at Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA), spoke out against safe space rules becoming “a tool for the hard left to use when they disagree with people”, following the incident last week. Ms Wilson, 22, was subject to a “safe space complaint” over her supposedly “inappropriate hand gestures” during a student council meeting. According to the association’s rules, student council meetings should be held in a “safe space environment”, defined as “a...
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GAP Kids Apologizes For ‘Racially Insensitive’ Ad
by Shifra on April 6, 2016As it turns out, the girls are sisters. But, still: Raaacism! ‘Offending’ pic, above. Outrage ensued: @GapKids proving girls can do anything… unless she's Black. Then all she can do is bear the weight of White girls. #EpicFail — Fatima La'Juan Muse (@TheTherapyDiva) April 2, 2016 Really @GapKids !? So are you proving that Black girls can be arm rests? #FAIL https://t.co/OhFGFTWhGY — Fatima La'Juan Muse (@TheTherapyDiva) April 2, 2016 Via UPI: Apparel company Gap apologized for the photo in a new children’s clothing ad that some have decried as racially insensitive. In the photo, four young girls are posed together, with a white girl standing with her arm resting on a younger African-American girl’s head. The Gap said it...
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CNN Host Ends Interview After Guest Mentions Hillary’s Defense of Child Rapist
by Shifra on April 5, 2016Uh oh. Someone dared to criticize The Queen. Via Daily Caller: [Audio embedded in article] CNN host Carol Costello abruptly ended a segment Tuesday after a guest brought up Hillary Clinton’s 1975 legal defense of an accused child rapist. Appearing on “CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello” on Tuesday, Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg, who supports Donald Trump said, “When you get one-on-one, especially if it’s Hillary, Donald Trump will go places nobody is willing to go — where the media at this point isn’t willing to go: Bringing up Clinton’s women who say they were intimidated by Hillary. Having them come forward and speak. A litany of issues that you can’t even imagine…. “Do you know how many young women in this...
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Surveillance And The Culture Of Self-Censorship
by Pat_S on April 3, 2016The internet and social media have been touted as democratizing forces. A recent study suggests that knowing there is government and private cyber surveillance results in self-censorship of minority opinions and creating a dominant voice online. Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring Since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency’s use of controversial online surveillance programs in 2013, there has been widespread speculation about the potentially deleterious effects of online government monitoring. This study explores how perceptions and justification of surveillance practices may create a chilling effect on democratic discourse by stifling the expression of minority political views. Using a spiral of silence theoretical framework, knowing one is subject to surveillance...
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White House Says ‘Technical Issue’ Caused Censorship of ‘Islamist terrorism’ From Video
by Tammy on April 2, 2016Yeah, the technical issue of being like Stalin. After all, don’t all ‘technical issues’ magically eliminate the words Obama especially hates and refuses to use, and only those word, like “Islamic terrorism,” from the comments of visiting Heads of State? An update to this story. Via Washington Times. It appeared this week that the White House censored a video of the French president to omit him saying the words “Islamist terrorism” during a speech at a bilateral meeting, but officials claim a technical glitch caused the ill-timed dropped audio. The Media Research Center, a media watchdog, reported Friday that the White House had removed a video of French President Francois Hollande speaking at a press event on terrorism with President...
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[Video] WH Website Censors French President Saying ‘Islamist Terrorism’
by Shifra on April 1, 2016As Tammy noted, this is something to be expected… in the Stalin Regime. Note from Tammy: Notice the looks on the faces of Obama’s lackeys sitting to his left. There’s Jarrett and Lisa Monico, but as the censored part of President Hollande’s comments are being spoken they all look over to The Jerk to see his reaction; you can actually see the concern and even fear in their faces. This is madness. I think the censoring the words in an official record of a visiting head of state is unprecedented. In America. This sort of thing is what despots do. And did they not think we would notice? I’m still stunned. The French should also issue an official protest. Via...
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Mike Ditka Calls Obama “Worst POTUS We Ever Had,” Gets Fired From ESPN
by Shifra on March 10, 2016Thanks to the Liberal Fascists, Tammy will have plenty of material for her sequel to The New Thought Police. Via Daily Mail: Mike Ditka will be replaced as a panelist on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown, it has been revealed. The announcement came less than a week after Ditka, both a former player and coach for the Chicago Bears, revealed he believed Barack Obama was the worst president ‘we’ve ever had’. Ditka, who has been a main panelist for the ESPN show since 2006, said Obama was a ‘fine man’ but not a leader when he went on WABC’S The Bernie & Sid Show last Thursday. ‘He would be great to play golf with,’ Ditka continued. ‘He’s not a leader. This...